Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Jan 2008 09:33 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Trolltech, the originator of Qt, which forms the basis of the Linux KDE desktop environment, is being acquired by Nokia, the world's number-one mobile phone vendor. Nokia expects its acquisition of Trolltech to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to enhance its Internet services business. The original press release is also available. Update: "We will continue to actively develop Qt and Qtopia. We also want to underline that we will continue to support the open source community by continuing to release these technologies under the GPL."
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RE[2]: It's time for changing...
by bnolsen on Mon 28th Jan 2008 18:02
in reply to "RE: It's time for changing..."
Member since:2006-01-06
Sadly true. fltk is on life support barely above abandonware levels. Currently what kills fltk as a useable toolkit is it's inability to gracefullly handle automatic relayout due to language/locale changes. Not to mention that the api in many places feels like an amateuristic hack.
It could be tempting to take the fltk code base and actually make something out of it, though.
Member since:
2005-07-07
Please tell me you're not serious? FLTK is not comparable to Qt or even wxWidgets.